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J. R. JUDD. Exercising Machine.

Patented Aug. 24,1880.

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N. PETERS. PHOTD-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHKNGYON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. JUDD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EXERClSlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,431, dated August 24, 1880,

Application filed May 1, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN R. JUDD, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Exercising-Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of the same.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine containing myimprovements. Fig. 2 is a rear view of a portion of the same. Figs. 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 are detailed views of detached parts, to be particularly described; and Fig. 6 represents the sliding seat and the rails on which it runs.

My invention relates to that class of exercising-machines whereby is provided the opportunity for the employment of muscular force in raising and lowering a weight attached to a cord running over a pulley; and the peculiarity of my invention is, that the mechanism I employ is adapted to be at pleasure readily attached to and detached from the door-case or window-frame of a room, and when detached its several parts, being separated and occupying but little space, may be all conveniently packed in a box or put out of the way.

A is a pulley having its bearingin a bracket, A. .A is a plate. The opposite side edges are provided with dovetail flanges. The foot of the bracket A, which is a plate with beveled edges, is fitted to slide in between the said flanges on A and form a dovetailed joint. The two plates may be slightly and correspondingly tapering. This pulley is designed to be placed near the upper top of the doorcase or window-frame of a room by firmly securing theplate A to the under work by screws, as shown in Fig. 1. B is another pulley, having its bearings in a bracket, B. This is intended to be secured to the floor in a manner similar to that by which A is secured to the door-case-namely, by a plate, B having flanges at its sides, into which the foot of the bracket fits with a dovetailed joint. When the plate B is secured to the floor, as seen in Fig. 1, and the bracket is slid into its seat between the dovetail flanges, it is locked in place by a swinging bar, a, (hinged to the plate B that is swung over and dropped down behind the rear end of the foot of the bracket.

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C is the rope which runs over the pulley A and under thepulley B, with its end bconnected to a rod, 11, to the lower end of which is attached a block, W, constituting a weight to be lifted by pulling at the opposite end of the rope, which is furnished with a handle, b for the purpose. Additional weights may be laid on blocks b D D are guide-rods for steadying the weight b as it rises and falls. These rods are provided with eyes (I d d d at their ends, by which they are hooked onto hooks d d d d. The hooks d and (1 may be screwed into the floor of the room, but preferably attached to the plate B in which is held the bracket B. The shanks of the hooks d and d are screwthreaded and provided with thumb-nuts. They are held in slotted openings in arms 0 e, that extend from the center of the bracket A. The rods D D may be adjusted in place by hooking their lower ends onto the hooks 01* and d and the upper ends into the hooks d (1 and then slipping the latter into the nuts in the arms 6 e and turning down the thumbmuts. The rods may be detached, obviously, by reverse movements. If preferred, d and d may be simply eyebolts permanently connected with the eyes in the rods, or the eyes in the upper ends of the rods D D and the hooks d and (1 may be dispensed with, and the said rods provided at the upper ends with screwthreads and thumb nuts, and placed in the slotted openings in the arms e c.

The block b is provided with ears ff, Fig. 7, which extend laterally from it, and through which pass the rods D D. These ears are preferably made of thick rawhide and held in recess in the top face of the said block.

The holes f f 3 for the rods should be slotted out to the end of the ears, the slots being cut at an angle to the axis of the holes. The rods may then be passed through the slots into the holes by flexing the sides of the slots, whereby, when the rods are in the holes and the sides of the slots are bent back to a plane, the rods are held from moving back into the slots.

The block b and the several weights may be raised in their upper face, with projections on their lower face to fit into the recesses to pre vent them sliding one upon another.

E E are ways upon which a sliding seat, E

is arranged to run. Preferably they are simply the upper edges of the sides of a box, as shown in Fig. 6. They should be made othard wood, of sufficient thickness for the purpose, provided with grooves g g. The seat may be provided with ribs on its under face fitting into the said grooves.

F is a bar pivoted at one end to the end of the box G, and at the opposite end provided with a downwardly-extending arm, h, having a hook, h, to hook into an eye, [L2, in the foot of bracket 15.

H is a foot-rest, which may be of any suitable material. It is suitably formed, being preferably two shoes connected by a cross bar to re ceive the feet of the operator, one end resting on the floor and the other supported on legs extending from the sides of the bracket 13, the rest being provided with slotted ears or hooks i, to hook onto the said lugs, so as to give the rest the proper inclination, as shown in Fig. 1. The rest, if preferred, maybe connected to the bar 1, as shown in the dotted lines in said Fig. 1. The connection is made by arranging the ears 2' to project down one 011 each side of the said bar, the foot-rest be ing divided at the top to admit the bar between the divisions. A bolt passing through the lugs and bar will attach them together; then, by having several holes in the bar. the foot-rest may be adjusted at pleasure in relation to the seat E".

It is obvious that the several posts of the apparatus here described are all readily de tachable from each other and from the side of the room, to which the brackets A and 1 are to be attached when arranged for use. The

dovetail plates A and 11* are designed to be permanently screwed, the former to the side of the door-case of a room, or some other convenient place on the wall, and the latter to the tloor. Then the brackets may be readily connected with and detached from said plates, and the other parts connected and disconnected at pleasure, as hereinbefore described. The whole may be, if desired, placed within the box G, or otherwise used in a small space, out of the way when not in use. and may quickly and conveniently be put up and arranged for use. This enables any person to have in his sleeping-a iartinent, if he desires, an exercising-machine that is not an incumbrance or inconvenience.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A detachable exercising-machine, composed of the pulleys A B, brackets A B',dovetail plates A and 13 rope 0, rod 1), and block 1; as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with the brackets A and B and pulleys A B, of the detachable rod I) l) and the block b", as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination, with the brackets A and ll, pulleys A I rope 0, block W, and foot-rest ll, of the ways E E and sliding seat E connected to the brackets B by the detachable bar F of the adjustable foot-rest II, as and for the purpose described.

4. The combination, with the bracket B, of

the pulleys, rope, aml weight of the seat E ways E E, and detachable bar F of the adjustable footrest II, as and for the purpose described.

J. R. JUDD. Witnesses:

M. USIIAUGIINESSY, ALLEN VnRnrLY/l. 

